Ãftâb

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ãftâb is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

  • PKPakistan≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 5Kfew records
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 8.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
201 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ÃftâbLatin(measured from records)
আফতাবBengali(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aftab in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 5 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ãftâb counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ãftâb is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#138≈100,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K1Aftab117
IN India—≈80,000 est.≈1 in 18K974Aftab147
BD Bangladesh#930≈13,000 est.≈1 in 13KlistedAftab67
SA Saudi Arabia#236≈4,200 est.≈1 in 8.5KlistedAftab49
AE United Arab Emirates—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 5K—Aftab25
US United States—7191 in 463K824Aftab201
QA Qatar#500≈280 est.≈1 in 10K—Aftab22
GY Guyana—681 in 11K68Aftab2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ãftâb under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ãftâb a male or female name?
Ãftâb is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ãftâb have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 105 thousand people named Ãftâb in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aftab.
How common is the name Ãftâb?
In the United States, the national register counted 719 people named Ãftâb in 2020, about 1 in 463 thousand residents.
How common is Ãftâb compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Ãftâb is the 138th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ãftâb” — the 138th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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